Offshore staff
MELBOURNE, Australia – Rouge Rock plans to exercise an option to farm into 45% of the AC/P50 and AC/P51 exploration permits in the Vulcan sub-basin offshore northwest Australia.
License holderMelbana Energy offered Rouge Rock the option in July 2016, in exchange for a free carry on the costs of the committed work program for the 2016-18 primary term of each permit.
The program includes 3D seismic broadband reprocessing, merging of the Zeppelin and Onnia 3D seismic data, interpretation and mapping of the reprocessed data, and pre-stack depth migration of the merged seismic data sets.
Melbana estimates the value of the reprocessing work undertaken by Rouge Rock at around $1.15 million.
The two companies intend to review recent drilling results in the area and integrate these with the reprocessed data, before conducting a joint farm-out process during 2017-18.
AC/P50 and AC/P51 are close to numerous oil and gas discoveries. Work to date had identified the Ramble On and Jur’maker oil prospects in a proven petroleum system in a shallow water area suitable for a lower cost jackup drilling rig.
Melbana renewed both permits for five-year terms in 2015.
07/27/2017
